Cypress Ranch hires Converse Judson's Sean McAuliffe as...

1of30PHOTOS: An updated look at all the high school football coaching changes this offseasonJudson head coach Sean McAuliffe works with the defensive linemen during a morning practice at the school on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018.Browse through the photos above to get updated on all the high school football coaching changes this offseason ...Photo: Marvin Pfeiffer, San Antonio Express-News

2of30CYPRESS RANCHOut: Gene Johnson
Johnson left to take the head coaching job at Waller. Johnson had been at Cypress Ranch since the school opened in 2008 and led the Mustangs to a 53-10 record over the last five seasons, including a perfect 10-0 regular season last year.
In: Sean McAuliffe (pictured)
McAuliffe was the head coach at Converse Judson the past five seasons, going 54-13 and taking his team to the state semifinals twice.Photo: Marvin Pfeiffer, San Antonio Express-News

3of30CINCO RANCHOut: Don Clayton (pictured)
Clayton, who announced his retirement in April, was the head coach at Cinco Ranch since the school opened in 1999, going 151-108 and making the playoffs 13 times.
In: Chris Dudley
Dudley had been a Cinco Ranch assistant since 2003 before taking the job as assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at Katy Taylor last season.Photo: Craig Moseley, Staff

4of30CYPRESS RIDGEOut: Gary Thiebaud
The only coach the program has known retired this offseason. He was 91-74 in 14 years with a regional final berth in 2017 at the Cypress-Fairbanks ISD outfit.
In: Andrew Shanle (pictured)
Shanle comes over from a Cypress Ranch defensive coordinator post. Shanle is a Nebraska Blackshirt with a Super Bowl ring from when he was on the New York Giants practice squad. Photo: Cy-Fair ISD

5of30HIGHTOWEROut: Padriac McGinnis
McGinnis resigned from the post. He helped the team to three district titles and five playoff appearances since taking over in 2012.
In: Joseph Sam (pictured)
Sam comes over after serving as Mansfield Legacy’s defensive coordinator. Photo: Joseph Sam

6of30DULLESOut: J.L. Geist
Geist takes over at San Antonio Clark. He was 17-12 in three seasons at Dulles, including an 8-3 mark and playoff appearance in 2018.
In: Shane Byrd (pictured)
Byrd was promoted from offensive coordinator to head coach on March 8.Photo: Fort Bend ISD

7of30FORT BEND AUSTINOut: Dan Schreiber (pictured)
Schreiber announced his retirement in April after going 33-59 in nine seasons at Austin, leading the Bulldogs to two playoff appearances. Schreiber also was a head coach at Duncanville and Hondo.
In: Mike Arogbonlo
Austin named the Fort Bend Travis offensive coordinator as head coach on May 16.Photo: Alan Warren

8of30YATESOut: Padriac McGinnis
McGinnis, who coached at Hightower last year, had taken the job to replace Michael Watkins in March, but both parties went their separate ways after just three weeks.In: Michael Hickey (pictured)
Hickey comes to Yates from Summer Creek where he was an assistant. Hickey is a former Yates assistant and graduated from Yates in 1991.Photo: Yates High School

9of30KASHMEREOut: Garry Dunham (pictured)
Garry Dunham officially announced his retirement after 37 years in Houston ISD and 33 of those at Kashmere.
In: James Laster
Laster was promoted from assistant coach to head coach in May.Photo: Melissa Phillip, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer

10of30LA PORTEOut: Jeff LaReau
LaReau retired this offseason. Four times in 14 seasons, Lareau-coached teams won double-digit games, including a 12-2 record in 2011 when the Bulldogs beat Katy 9-7.
In: Anthony Renfro (pictured)
Renfro comes from Clear Springs, where he was an assistant head coach with coordinating duties on a three-time defending District 24-6A championship squad.Photo: Submitted photo

11of30ALDINE DAVISOut: James Showers
The only coach the young program has ever known never missed the playoffs in five seasons.
In: Scott Joseph (pictured)
With stops at Westbury, Seven Lakes, Cypress Ranch, Navarro College and Morton Ranch, Joseph is takes over at Aldine Davis, which will be his second head coaching job.Photo: Ernie Chan, For the Chronicle

12of30MAGNOLIA WESTOut: J.D. Berna
Berna is moving to the athletics director role with Magnolia ISD. He was 25-9 in three seasons in west Magnolia.
In: Blake Joseph (pictured)
Joseph, the nephew of Katy coach Gary Joseph, was promoted to head coach after three seasons as the offensive coordinator at Magnolia West. His offense averaged 40.3 points per game last season.Photo: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle

13of30MAGNOLIAOUT: Sterling Doty
Doty is the new coach at Stephenville. His five seasons at Magnolia included back-to-back 10-win campaigns in 2015 and 2016 – the first for the program since 1959 and 1960.
In: Craig Martin (pictured)
Martin was the offensive coordinator at Temple the past two seaon. In his time as an assistant at Temple, the Wildcats played in state championship games in 2014 and 2016. Photo: Magnolia ISD

14of30CROSBYOut: Jeff Riordan
Riordan resigned after seven seasons and has since taken the Tyler Chapel Hill job. He helped turned Crosby into one of Houston’s marquee programs. The team made a state semifinal in 2014.
In: Jerry Prieto (pictured, center, red tie)
Prieto was the offensive coordinator at Corpus Christi Veterans Memorial, a 5A school that averaged 44 points per game last season. Prior to his time in Corpus Christi, he was an offensive assistant at Cypress Springs.Photo: Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle

15of30CONROE CANEY CREEKOut: Steve Svendsen
Svendsen stepped down to become the head coach at Rapid City Stevens High School in his native South Dakota. Svendsen went 6-33 in four seasons at Caney Creek.
In: Ned Barrier (pictured)
Barrier comes from Wallis Brazos, where he led the Class 2A team to the playoffs in all three seaons he was head coach. Prior to Brazos, Barrier spent five years as the offensive coordinator at Jasper.Photo: Fort Bend Herald

16of30ALVINOut: Buddy Hardin
The former Cypress Springs assistant was 0-10 in his only year at Alvin. The Yellowjackets have not made the playoffs since 2005.
IN: Tim Teykl (pictured)
Teykl was the head coach at Terry for 25 years, producing a record of 160-112-1 and going to the playoffs 16 times. He was University of Houston's director of high school relations last season.Photo: Â Tony Bullard 2013, Freelance Photographer

17of30WALLEROut: Jim Phillips
Phillips assumes an athletics director role with the district. Phillips won 10 games twice in two stints with Waller but the team has not made the postseason since 2014.
In: Gene Johnson (pictured)
Johnson had been the Cypress Ranch head coach since the school opened in 2008. Johnson went 10-0 at Cy Ranch during the regular season last year before losing to Westfield in overtime in the second round of the playoffs. Before Cy Ranch, Johnson was the head coach at Klein Forest and Fort Bend Hightower.Photo: Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle

18of30GALENA PARKOut: George Young (pictured)
The former North Shore defensive line coach stepped down after two seasons at Galena Park, going 1-8 in his first season and improving to 4-6 last season.
In: Spiro Amarantos
The Porter assistant and Galena Park graduate returns home to take the job. Photo: Galena Park ISD

19of30GOOSE CREEK MEMORIALOut: Bren Jones
Jones stepped down on April 18 after going 3-26 in three seasons as head coach. Goose Creek Memorial hasn't made the playoffs since 2013.
In: Shannon Carter
Carter, who was the Cinco Ranch defensive coordinator, accepted the Goose Creek Memorial job on May 6.Photo: Mike Tobias/The Enterprise

20of30PASADENAOut: Jeff Ganske
Ganske retired after 11 years. Pasadena’s last winning season was in 2002.
In: David Zapien (pictured)Zapien was Pasadena's offensive coordinator the past three seasons. Zapien previously was the offensive coordinator at Corpus Christi West Oso and the quarterbacks coach at Dallas' W.T. White High School.Photo: Robert Avery

21of30PASADENA RAYBURNOut: Shaun Wynn
The former North Shore assistant resigned from the post. Rayburn is 2-26 the last three seasons.
In: Demond Stafford (pictured)
Stafford moves over from an assistant role with Pasadena Memorial. Stafford also spent time as a defensive coach at Angleton.Photo: Aaron M. Sprecher, For the Chronicle

22of30PASADENA MEMORIALOut: Chris Quillian
After 38 years in the business and stops at Stratford, Emory Rains, North Mesquite, Brenham, Hempstead and San Angelo Central, Quillian is retiring. He had four playoff teams at Pasadena Memorial since taking over in 2012.
In: Jamie Crocker (pictured)
Friendswood defensive coordinator Jamie Crocker will take the reins. He’s spent 11 of his 20-year career at Friendswood. Crocker also spent time as the Manvel baseball coach.Photo: L. Scott Hainline

23of30BRAZOSPORTOut: Mike Ferrell
Ferrell resigned after taking the team from one win in 2016 to eight and a playoff berth in 2017.
In: Mark Kanipes (pictured)
From the Tony Heath coaching tree at Pearland, Kanipes helped Santa Fe to its first playoff berth since 2009 this season.Photo: Leslie Plaza Johnson/Contributor

24of30BRAZOSWOODOut: Dean DeAtley
The former La Marque and Pearland staff member spent a combined 21 years heading Columbia and Brazoswood with seven playoff appearances. The high-water mark was the 11-2 and 10-4 Brazoswood teams in 2006 and 2009, respectively.
In: Danny Youngs (pictured)
Youngs comes over from Wichita Falls Hirschi, where he took the team from a combined three wins in his first two seasons to an 11 and 10-win campaign in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Photo: Lauren Roberts/Times Record News

25of30SANTA FEOut: Mark Kanipes (pictured)
Kanipes leaves Santa Fe for Brazosport. From the Tony Heath coaching tree at Pearland, Kanipes helped Santa Fe to its first playoff berth since 2009 this season.
In: Matt Bentley
Bentley had been Kanipes' defensive coordinator at Santa Fe since 2014. Bentley also was a defensive assistant under Kanipes when Kanipes was the defensive coordinator at Pearland before getting the Santa Fe job.Photo: Michael Ciaglo, Houston Chronicle

26of30COLUMBUSOut: Mike Bonewald
Bonewald stepped down after going 12-19 in three seasons, including a 6-5 record last season and his second straight trip to the playoffs.
In: Matt Schobel (pictured)
Schobel, who played in the NFL as a tight end for seven seasons with the Bengals and Eagles and was a star at Columbus High School, was named head coach on May 13.Photo: NFL Photos/NFL

27of30TARKINGTONOut: Stan Howard
Howard stepped away after three seasons, going 6-23 in his time at Tarkington.
In: Zach Bass (pictured)
Bass takes over at Tarkington after spending time as the Port Arthur Memorial offensive coordinator.Photo: Photo provided by Tarkington ISD

28of30COLDSPRINGOut: Jim Bird (pictured)
According to Matt Stepp of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football, Bird resigned due to family reasons. He’ll join the staff at Lovelady. He was 3-8 in his only season at Coldspring.
In: Ken Stanley
Stanley, who was the offensive coordinator at Liberty, was hired on April 23. Stanley also has experience as a former head coach at Hemphill and was the quarterbacks coach at Atascocita before that.Photo: Cassie Gregory / COCISD

29of30CLEVELANDOut: Keith Hendrix
Hendrix resigned after Cleveland went 0-10 this season.
In: Norris Taff (pictured)
Taff was promoted to replace Hendrix. Cleveland has not made the postseason since 2013. Photo: Staff photo/Marcus Gutierrez

30of30ST. PIUS XOut: Erik Dehaven
Dehaven moves to John Cooper. He moved from defensive coordinator to head coach at St. Pius X after Stephen Hill left the post for a role with the Texas State football program. St. Pius won nine games last year.
In: Billy Noonan (pictured)
The former St. Pius X quarterback comes from Tomball, where he was pass game coordinator and softball head coach. Photo: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle

Cypress Ranch named Converse Judson's Sean McAuliffe as its new head football coach Thursday.McAuliffe was the head coach at the San Antonio-area school for the last five seasons, leading the Rockets to a 54-13 record.

McAuliffe, a 1993 Judson graduate, twice led the Rockets to the state semifinals, including a loss to Cypress Ranch, his new school, in the 2014 state semifinals. He previously served as the defensive coordinator at Kerrville Tivy and also coached at Lake Travis, San Antonio Holmes and Jersey Village, which, like Cypress Ranch, is a Cy-Fair ISD school.

"I've always thought real highly of the district," McAuliffe said. "For being so big, it's kind of a well-oiled machine, and they do a great job of developing young kids and people in general. It was opportunity I couldn't pass up."

McAuliffe replaces Gene Johnson, who left Cypress Ranch to take over the program at Waller. Johnson had been the Mustangs' coach since the school opened in 2008, leading them to four double-digit winning seasons and three district titles. His 2014 team advanced to the Class 6A Division I state title game. Johnson led the Mustangs to 10-0 regular season last year before losing to Westfield in overtime in the second round of the playoffs.

In 2015, McAuliffe's Judson team lost to eventual state champion North Shore in the state semifinals. The Rockets went 12-1 last season before losing to Lake Travis 38-21 in the Class 6A Division I state quarterfinals.

Judson's deep tradition of winning makes for a perfect fit for McAuliffe at Cypress Ranch.

"I was fortunate enough to work at a school in Judson where the expectations were extremely high," McAuliffe said. "I've got quite a bit of experience dealing with that. They (the Mustangs) do have pieces in place. The foundation is laid. All I'm trying to do is build on that thing and make it even better than what it already is."